If you tuned into my stories, it seemed highly unlikely that what I was trying to cook up from a Pinterest recipe could ever amount to anything. But alas, the snow cloud dough was saved!!! 🙌🏻 It really lent itself to making our own snowman as in the book, Snowballs by Lois Ehlert. I simply provided a muffin tin of options and B got creative (with a little help from me…
Here’s yet another low prep activity for a busy day. All I did was draw the string lights outline with a marker and offered B a pile of buttons. Suddenly she was placing her @pawpatrol pups on the table (we have a new obsession) and sorting the buttons to share with her “friends” based on the color of their clothes. She actually extended my activity, and I was so…
I drew 2 Christmas trees and had B decorate each with the corresponding dot stickers (can you tell I’m rolling in dozens of new colors of dot stickers? 🤣). Honestly, I hadn’t planned on doing both in the same day, and I wouldn’t have except that she requested “another Christmas tree.” Thankfully, I had one! 😅 One tree worked on numbers 1-12 and the other tree on letters…
Using painter’s tape and @postit notes, we created a giant number line which served as a launching pad for our homemade paper airplanes. ✈️ The children then took turns walking down the number line (reinforcing counting and one-to-one correspondence), and later launching their airplanes from a starting line to see which airplane design would make it the farthest. When we were done, we parked our planes at the…
On the same day as our fine motor play with leaves activity (see previous post), we followed up with this math related leaf activity. I used a dice from @orientaltrading that came with this month’s @experiencecurriculum box, and the children took turns rolling it, to place that many leaves on the tree. At the end, they enjoyed trying to cover the tree with as many leaves as possible, and…
This morning we read Sky Tree by Candace Christiansen and Thomas Locker, which has gorgeous illustrations. To bridge the gap between literacy and math, we were supposed to collect leaves from outside for our @experiencecurriculum lesson…but it was pouring rain ☔️, so I improvised. H and I made a tree trunk, branches, and leaves 🍃 , and put them together to make an Autumn/Fall tree. We discussed how trees and their…